"The true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today"--Dust jacket flap. "The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized...

In The Screentime Solution, Emily teaches parents to become "tech-intentional": using screen-based technologies to enhance, nurture, and align with family values while avoiding, delaying, or limiting screentime that interferes with healthy mental, physical, cognitive, and emotional development.

"Introduce your little ones to Dr. Ochoa's stellar world - and how innovations in technology help us learn and problem-solve in both English and Spanish! Your future tech wizards will learn of the endless possibilities computers, algorithms, and coding can create in the world around them. Alongside Ellen Ochoa, let's explore how technology is part of our daily lives, allowing us all to stay curious and be a part of our world's innovation."--

"Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics. Inconceivable is...

"Yokohama Station has swallowed 99% of mainland Japan. With help from Keiha Nijo of the Dodger Alliance, Hiroto has followed the Professor's whispered intimations to Exit 42 in the mountainous interior of Yokohama Station. There, in the heart of the beast, an ancient monitor flickers to life, and an image of the Profesor in his youth, a haunting digital simulacrum, awakens from its slumber. And just nearby, there is a button--one that, when pressed,...

"As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text color to white so no one can see. That is until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment:...

When she receives a disturbing text message from the only man she's ever loved who died five years ago, Ariel Cafferty, with the more questions she asks, the more sinister answers she gets, must, to safeguard herself and her son, find the truth before it finds her.

"Bora Chung's inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience a variety of possible fates for humanity, from total demise via a disease whose only symptom is casual cannibalism to a world in which even dreams can be monitored and used to convict people of crimes. ...

"Estamos viviendo tiempos realmente inquietantes caracterizados por una profunda confusión y desorientación. Y el uso de las pantallas en niños y adolescentes no hace sino agravar el problema. En este libro, Francisco Villar reflexiona sobre el impacto negativo de la digitalización no solo en el neurodesarrollo de nuestros niños y adolescentes, sino también en su desarrollo social, afectivo y relacional. El uso de las pantallas afecta directamente...

"Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, the Chinese surveillance state is also a hugely labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the heart of CCP power."--